Title that you want this ApacheHandler to appear as under Apache::Status. Default is "HTML::Mason status". This is useful if you create more than one ApacheHandler object and want them all visible via Apache::Status.

Method to use for unpacking GET and POST arguments. The valid options are 'CGI' and 'mod_perl'; these indicate that a CGI.pm or Apache::Request object (respectively) will be created for the purposes of argument handling.

'mod_perl' is the default under mod_perl-1 and requires that you have installed the Apache::Request package. Under mod_perl-2, the default is 'CGI' because Apache2::Request is still in development.

If args_method is 'mod_perl', the $r global is upgraded to an Apache::Request object. This object inherits all Apache methods and adds a few of its own, dealing with parameters and file uploads. See Apache::Request for more information.

If the args_method is 'CGI', the Mason request object ($m) will have a method called cgi_object available. This method returns the CGI object used for argument processing.

While Mason will load Apache::Request or CGI as needed at runtime, it is recommended that you preload the relevant module either in your httpd.conf or handler.pl file, as this will save some memory.

True or false, default is true. Indicates whether Mason should decline directory requests, leaving Apache to serve up a directory index or a FORBIDDEN error as appropriate. See the allowing directory requests section of the administrator's manual for more information about handling directories with Mason.

All of the above properties, except interp_class, have standard accessor methods of the same name: no arguments retrieves the value, and one argument sets it, except for args_method, which is not settable. For example:

This method takes an Apache object representing a request and returns a new Mason request object or an Apache status code. If it is a request object you can manipulate that object as you like, and then call the request object's exec method to have it generate output.

If this method returns an Apache status code, that means that it could not create a Mason request object.

This method is useful if you would like to have a chance to decline a request based on properties of the Mason request object or a component object. For example: